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Hearing her words, even Jieming couldn't help but feel a pang of envy.
Under normal circumstances, a wizard's mastery of a rule was akin to loading a video. That final 1% was always the most difficult and time-consuming part.
But now, Viola had found a super-accelerator that would skyrocket her "download speed"!
Jieming clicked his tongue.
Is this script even right?
As a transmigrator, shouldn't I be the one finding opportunities in this battle and rapidly leveling up?
Ignoring Jieming's inner turmoil, Viola's face, usually tinged with amusement, now held only unwavering resolve.
Without hesitation, she decisively poured the soul ascension potion into her mouth.
The golden liquid slid down her throat like a living thing. In an instant, an unimaginable surge of power erupted from within her.
Her soul energy began to skyrocket at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Jieming could clearly sense her aura rapidly intensifying.
The mental power radiating from her body surged like colossal waves, effortlessly shattering the shackles of a third-tier wizard and instantly breaking through to the realm of a fourth-tier wizard.
Her aura continued to skyrocket, hurtling toward even greater heights.
Within seconds, she shattered the fourth-tier wizard's shield, directly ascending to the level of a fifth-tier wizard!
The runes on her skin glowed with intensified brilliance, and her silver-gray eyes shimmered with the magnificent radiance of materialized rules.
However, as Viola's aura crashed against the checkpoint for advancing to a sixth-tier wizard, her progress visibly slowed.
The invisible barrier proved immensely resilient, resisting even the enhanced power of the soul ascension potion.
The rule power radiating from her body stagnated, as if trapped in quicksand.
But just then...
The Living Flamefrost Plane displayed on the light screen seemed to sense an overwhelming, fatal threat. Its red-blue eyes, composed of swirling energy, emitted violent soul fluctuations!
Yet this time, the soul fluctuations were no longer filled with rage and roars.
The message it conveyed was akin to a heart-wrenching, soul-shattering wail.
This desperate cry, born of agony, resonated perfectly with Viola's "pain rule."
As Viola's level increased, the pain experienced by the Living Flamefrost Plane intensified dramatically.
This pain no longer remained confined to its physical form; it had penetrated to the very origin of its soul, subjecting the planar behemoth to unprecedented torment that even disrupted the core energy flow within its being.
The extreme pain felt by the Living Flamefrost Plane, through the resonance of their shared rules, was swiftly and clearly transmitted back to Viola.
This immense planar-Level pain, like the most potent catalyst, surged into Viola's soul as it shattered the barriers to advancement.
Instantly, Viola's stagnant aura surged anew, as if infused with fresh vitality, breaking through the sixth-tier barrier that had been suppressing her with a silent, earth-shattering roar.
Buzzing...
The moment Viola successfully advanced, a vast and icy mental power, as boundless as the tides, swept across the precinct without concealment.
Within that mental power, Jieming clearly sensed a familiar yet foreign qi.
Without a doubt, the only being on the ship plane with such power was the other sixth-tier wizard—Wizard Augustine!
Upon sensing Viola's qi, Wizard Augustine was astonished by her consecutive leaps in advancement.
Even though he had known Viola's plan in advance, the smoothness of her advancement still exceeded his expectations.
But immediately, a hint of delight surfaced within Augustine's icy aura.
A sixth-tier wizard, especially one capable of significantly influencing a living plane, could decisively alter the course of the current battle.
The effects of the soul ascension potion on Viola would last for a while longer.
This duration would allow Viola to support Augustine and the ship plane with her full power, unreservedly, at her peak-stage.
Augustine and Viola, both acutely aware of the preciousness of this time, tacitly intensified their assault on the living plane.
Soon, Master Augustine's icy commands once again coursed through the plane's magic network, reaching every wizard's terminal.
Under his precise direction and Viola's support, the ship plane's suppressive force against the living plane surged to a new level.
With the assistance of Viola, the newly advanced sixth-tier wizard of the "Pain" school, the Flamefrost Plane was immediately plunged into extreme disadvantage, its agonized screams echoing endlessly.
Once a sixth-tier wizard masters a complete rule, they can apply "rule solidification" to other entities.
For example, the ship plane's main cannons, sensing the amplification of Viola's rule power, didn't gain increased destructive force, but each strike now inflicted far greater pain upon their targets.
The Flamefrost Plane had no time to adapt to this level of agony, and its energy manipulation faltered catastrophically.
Before long, the outermost energy defenses of the living plane were torn asunder.
A column of energy light tens of kilometers wide pierced through the outer defenses and struck the Living Flamefrost Plane's "Blazing Sun Realm."
The attack blasted a bottomless chasm into the core region, nearly halting the continuous eruptions of lava.
Simultaneously, the dense array of space annihilation cannons lining both sides of the ship plane unleashed their full power.
No longer merely creating spatial rifts, they now evaporated massive chunks of the living plane's colossal body, leaving behind vast voids where all matter and energy had been utterly annihilated.
For the living plane, these wounds were akin to having its heart torn out and its flesh carved away—a torment beyond measure.
Though the Flamefrost Plane continued to retaliate fiercely, its massive "magma maw" spewed lava flows with even greater ferocity than before.
The "red-blue eyes" also unleashed more violent elemental disasters.
Yet these attacks had become chaotic and feeble, lacking any coherent strategy, resembling the desperate death throes of a dying beast.
Many strikes veered wildly off course due to Viola's "pain rule," posing no effective threat to the ship plane.
The living plane emitted soul-shattering howls of agony with unprecedented frequency.
Yet its resilience far exceeded the expectations of everyone present!
Even in its agonizing pain, even after suffering severe damage before the battle began, even after Viola's advancement to the sixth tier had plunged it into a desperate disadvantage, seemingly on the verge of complete collapse, it somehow managed to muster another surge of power and launch a fresh counterattack in the very next moment!
Its core origin was unimaginably resilient.
No matter the blows and torment it endured, it stubbornly clung to life, refusing to yield.
After all, living planes were exceedingly rare, and information about them was scarce.
No one had anticipated that this sixth-tier creature's combat prowess and vitality would be so astonishing.
Despite its overwhelming disadvantage, it stubbornly endured!
Even Viola couldn't help but frown.
The fervor in her eyes was now tinged with a hint of solemnity.
She knew that if this stalemate dragged on until the effects of her soul ascension potion wore off, the creature might actually turn the tide.
By then, the situation would become utterly unmanageable!
But the problem remained: they lacked a decisive opportunity to strike a fatal blow and end the battle once and for all.
Jieming recognized the critical stalemate in the battle.
The two sides were locked in a deadlock, neither able to decisively crush the other in the short term.
He had no immediate solutions; his rank prevented him from influencing the grand course of this planar war.
But just then, a strange sensation struck him with intense force.
This sensation wasn't visual or auditory, but a deep resonance within his soul—a dark, obscure, yet strangely familiar presence.
Jieming immediately focused his attention on the holographic display, carefully examining the state of the Living Flamefrost Plane.
He quickly identified the problem.
Under the relentless bombardment from both planes and the constant torment of the "Pain" rule, the Living Flamefrost Plane could no longer maintain its surface structure.
Its outermost layer of matter was being visibly eroded by the ship plane's attacks.
Hardened rock strata, frozen glaciers, erupting sulfurous gases... everything was collapsing!
In their place, deeper, more core regions—containing vast reserves of chaotic energy—were slowly being exposed to the void.
However, this didn't mean the Living Flamefrost Plane was any easier to deal with.
On the contrary, its core surface was not only incredibly durable but also surrounded by vast quantities of raging elemental energy, forming a natural protective barrier that made it nearly impossible to inflict fatal damage.
In fact, the disappearance of the outer layers made it even easier for the Living Flamefrost Plane to mobilize its internal energy and launch even more ferocious counterattacks.
Jieming's gaze swept across the dazzling display of elemental energy.
Magma, frost, windstorms, lightning... all forms of elemental power surged within the core region of the living plane.
Yet amidst this dazzling spectacle, a faint, almost imperceptible wisp of pitch-black energy, carrying a unique aura, silently emerged, unnoticed by any of the wizards present.
But Jieming knew precisely that this pitch-black energy was the source of his intense premonition.
For it was none other than the Sea of Yin Qi he had previously sealed!
More precisely, what triggered Jieming's premonition wasn't the Sea of Yin Qi itself, but the Fiend Suppression Curse Technique he had cast within its core region as a seal and suppression mechanism!
(End of the Chapter)
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